A Childhood Story: Future To Be First Poem Poem by Terence George Craddock

when I was very young about?
about eleven years old I wrote
a short story which in my mind
was not even a story yet as I wrote
I was in a primary school classroom
an old fashioned 1960s style room
with huge ceiling height from child
eyes still young short not time grown

strange words in mind kept forming
slow drip words word by word forming
strange feeling siren words forming
child not knowing what was happening
not knowing why words were coming
a writer's writer disease first starting

not knowing words were forming
a story a story complete forming
a very brief child short story forming
a short story to be first poem forming
first ever to be A Beach poem forming
at this time still only a story forming


Terence George Craddock (Afterglows Echoes Of Starlight)
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